Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months agoIt was developed by Tesla and they lobbied the government to change the standard from CCS to NACS.
Originally, the government said they’d make CCS the standard, so many car companies made their vehicles CCS. Obviously, this would be mighty expensive for Tesla since they’d have to upgrade their infrastructure. So instead, they claimed that out of the goodness of their hearts, they’d release the NACS specification to all car manufacturers.
Once Tesla did that, the government changed their tune and made NACS the standard. While you are correct that NACS can handle more power, CCS was having a newer version developed (with the same connector) which would have likely been the standard moving forward, had Tesla not been successful in their lobbying.
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.
Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Sure, that is a valid argument. But it doesn’t change the fact that the government was successfully lobbied into changing what their grant money could be used for, seemingly overnight. When the grants were announced, CCS was said to become the standard. Due to that, many car companies stuck with CCS, and no doubt that some consumers (myself included) bought a CCS vehicle expecting it to be further developed.